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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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Book Image

React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

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By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

Filled with useful React patterns that you can use in your projects straight away, this book will help you save time and build better web applications with ease. React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a hands-on guide for those who want to take their coding skills to a new level. You’ll spend most of your time working your way through the principles of writing maintainable and clean code, but you’ll also gain a deeper insight into the inner workings of React. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build components that are reusable across the application, how to structure applications, and create forms that actually work. Then you’ll build on your knowledge by exploring how to style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Once you’ve mastered the rest, you’ll learn how to write tests effectively and how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you'll be able to avoid the process of trial and error and developmental headaches. Instead, you’ll be able to use your new skills to efficiently build and deploy real-world React web applications you can be proud of.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Hello React!
4
How React Works
10
Performance, Improvements, and Production!
19
About Packt

Exploring the Radium library

One of the first libraries that were created to solve the problems of inline styles that we encountered in the previous section is Radium. It is maintained by the great developers at Formidable Labs, and it is still one of the most popular solutions.

In this section, we will look at how Radium works, which problems it solves, and why it is a great library to use in conjunction with React for styling components. We are going to create a very simple button, similar to the one we built in the example earlier in this chapter.

We will start with a basic button without styling, and we will add some basic styling, as well as pseudo-classes and media queries, so that we can learn about the main features of the library.

The button we will start with is created as follows:

const Button = () => <button>Click me!</button>

First, we have to install Radium using npm:

npm install --save radium @types/radium

Once the installation is complete, we can import...